Pull pkgsrc from git again
Some cleanup in the CVS -> git process wasn’t happening, so if you have been using pkgsrc 2011Q3 from git (i.e. via make in /usr), re-pull to make sure you have everything.
(The post noting this seems to have been eaten by the mailarchive… that’ll be replaced.)
Planned dragonflybsd.org maintenance
There’ll be some brief outages this week as a few of the dragonflybsd.org machines are upgraded. The new machines will be 64-bit DragonFly, and have 16G of RAM. RAM is crazy cheap these days. I’m continually dumbfounded by it.
July-September, 2011 Status Report
The July-September, 2011 Status Report is now available with 28 entries.
TIM number two
The Technology Innovation Management Review (used to be the Open Source Business Resource) has its second issue out since the rename. There’s still plenty of open-source focus in there.
Have you noticed how what was nerd culture 20 years ago has become mainstream? In the same way, open source is becoming a given assumption, rather tha [...]
2 Articles in November Issue of BSD M...
Two PC-BSD articles appear in the November issue of BSD Magazine, which is now available for free download.
On pages 6–8, Mark VonFange discusses some of the new features in the upcoming release of PC-BSD 9.0.
On pages 12–13, Kris Moore demonstrates how to create your own PBI repository on a FreeBSD system.
Lazy Reading for 2011/11/06
A bumper crop of articles to read this week.
Ruby went to a BSD license. That’s nice to see. Commence licensing argument in 3… 2…
DragonFly BSD on Ohloh hasn’t been updated in months – it should be noticing new commits automatically. Don’t know why. Any more vigorous users of Ohloh that know why?
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Reports from EuroBSDcon 2011
Frédéric Perrin wrote in with this EuroBSDCon conference report:
Back from EuroBSDcon 2011 that took place in the beginning of October in the Netherlands, I started to organise my notes, and finally published them.
Topics that where covered include OpenBSD port to UltraSPARC T1 and T2 processors, by kettenis@; the Minix 3 architecture [...]
A Week of OpenBSD Hacking In Slovenia...
For a few days in September (16th through 23rd), the Slovenian capital
Ljubljana was also the World Capital of OpenBSD hacking, hosting the
s2k11: General hackathon, with
25 developers participating. We asked each of the the developers to
send us a short summary of what happened at s2k11 as soon as they\'d
caught up on sleep, [...]
Structure changes mean recompilation
This recent structure change (are there others like this? Maybe?) means that existing binaries may need to be recompiled for anyone tracking DragonFly master. This probably means that an upgrade from 2.10 to 2.12 will require rebuilds of all binary pkgsrc packages.
COMPAT_43 and COMPAT_DF12 gone
Well, they’re still available, but you don’t want them in your config any more because they can slow you down. This will only affect you if you are running binary files from DragonFly 1.2 or earlier, or… I guess a 4.3 BSD binary? From 1986? I’m sure there’s some other reason for it to be there.
Trip Report: Andrew Turner
The next trip report is from Andrew Turner:On day one of the Developer summit, I attended the bmake/bus_bma and toolchain working groups. I contributed to these by announcing a patch to allow FreeBSD to be compiled from Linux. The patch is available; however, it is against an old copy of HEAD and does not apply correctly. An updated (Read mo [...]
More multi-core improvements
Matthew Dillon wrote up an explanation of how performance on systems with a lot of CPU cores has been significantly improved – up to 300%! (He says 200%, but I think he’s treating it as a percentage of a whole rather than percent changed.) Apparently finally getting rid of lock contention is the trick.
Trip Report: Brooks Davis
The next EuroBSDCon trip report is from Brooks Davis:I arrived in Maarssen on the 5th of October and met up with fellow developers for drinks at the hotel and then dinner.On the 6th, we headed to the conference site and commenced with the developers summit. After an opening session, we broke up into working groups. For the first [...]
Libhammer added
Antonio Huete Jimenez’s ‘libhammer‘, a library to make various Hammer functions available to userland programs, has been added. It implements ‘hammer info’ only at this point, if I understand correctly.
Postgres performance speedups, possib...
Samuel Greear, Jan Lentfer, and others are looking at Postgres scaling on DragonFly. The work they are doing isn’t in the tree yet, but here’s a graph showing some of the performance differences.
Lazy Reading for 2011/10/30
It’s snowing in the northeast U.S., which makes me happy! Keep going, sky!
Richard Stallman’s requirements when giving talks/lectures. (via) I read this not unreasonable but long list and thought about it. Every requirement on there probably has an experience/story behind it… (“If you can find a host for me that h [...]
Postfix 2.8.6 imported into NetBSD-cu...
Postfix 2.8.6 was imported into NetBSD-current last Friday. The changes since Postfix 2.8.5 are:
The Postfix SMTP daemon sent \"bare\" newline characters
instead of <CR><LF> when a header_checks REJECT pattern
matched multi-line header. This bug was introduced with Postfix
1.1.
The Postfix SMTP daemon sent \"bare\" newlin [...]
Postfix 2.8.6 imported into NetBSD-cu...
Postfix 2.8.6 was imported into NetBSD-current last Friday. The changes since Postfix 2.8.5 are:
The Postfix SMTP daemon sent \"bare\" newline characters
instead of <CR><LF> when a header_checks REJECT pattern
matched multi-line header. This bug was introduced with Postfix
1.1.
The Postfix SMTP daemon sent \"bare\" newlin [...]
FreeBSD – Mounting NFS share gi...
Connecting to a NFS server from a FreeBSD installation hit an error. The command executed was :
mount -t nfs nfs.example.com:/vol/some/nfs/share /mnt/mount/point
The error :
[tcp] nfs.example.com:/vol/some/nfs/share: RPCMNT: clnt_create: RPC: Remote system error - Operation timed out
The firewall has open port 111 (portmapper) & 2049 (mo [...]
